Grace Seifert is seen in this undated photo.

Grace Seifert of Rocky Point was in her 40s when she learned to drive a car, in her 60s when she learned to ride a bicycle, and in her 80s when she began delivering meals to homebound elderly who were younger than her.

And while not particularly athletic, she bowled a perfect game in her mid-60s, her family said.

"She was a very positive person. She always had a smile on her face. She...

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Grace Seifert of Rocky Point was in her 40s when she learned to drive a car, in her 60s when she learned to ride a bicycle, and in her 80s when she began delivering meals to homebound elderly who were younger than her.

And while not particularly athletic, she bowled a perfect game in her mid-60s, her family said.

George Hochbrueckner called his mother-in-law "a great campaign asset. Who is going to say no to a 75-year-old woman handing out literature?"

Seifert was born Grace Joan McBride in Brooklyn on Nov. 26, 1913, and at her death was the last of 10 siblings. One of her seven sisters lived to 106 and four others lived into their 90s, her daughter said.

Seifert met her future husband at a surprise birthday party and they married in 1937. When he joined the U.S. Army in 1943, she took over the family bar and grill in the Bronx and ran it until his return.

They rented a home in Levittown in 1948, then bought a home in Hicksville two years later. He was a long-haul trucker and she raised their four children.

After the children were grown, Seifert rode with her husband on some of his cross-country trucking runs. As he prepared to retire, they sold the house and moved to Florida, but returned to Long Island in 1983.

There will be a wake Wednesday from 3 to 8 p.m. at St. James Funeral Home at 829 Middle Country Rd. in St. James. A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Thursday at Infant Jesus Roman Catholic Church at 110 Myrtle Ave. in Port Jefferson. Burial will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.

The family said donations in her name can be made to Hope House in Port Jefferson, Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook or Good Shepherd Hospice in Farmingdale.